Computers in your future 2004. Complete edition / Bryan Pfaffenberger, Bill Daley ; contributions by Ken Royal.

Table of Contents

Becoming Fluent with Computers

Chapters Outline

1 .
Introducing Computers and the Internet
The Need for Computer Fluency
What is Computer Anyway?
Introducing Hardware: The Computer’s Physical Components
Introducing Software: Telling the Computer what to do
The Internet

2.
Inside the System Unit
Describing Hardware Performance
Introducing System Unit
What’s on the Motherbord
What’s on the Outside of the Box
How compuers Represent Data

3.
Input and Output: Data In, Information Out
Understanding Input: Getting Data Into the Computer
Input devices: Giving Commands
Keyboards
Etc.

4.
Memory vs. Storage
Storage Devices
Disks and Disk Drives
Etc.

5.
The Operating System
System Utilities
Etc.

6.
Horizontal and Vertical Applications
Commercial Software
Software Versions
Using Application Software
Etc.

7.
Introducing Computer Networks: Synergy at Work
Network Fundamentals
Local Area Network ( LAN)
Wide Area Networks (WAN)
Etc.

8.
Understanding the Internet
Internet Software; Clients and Servers
How the Internet Works
Etc.

9.
The Web: An Indispensable Information Resource
Browsing the Web
Finding Information on the Web
Using Search Techniques
Etc.

10.
Unde4rstanding the Telephone System
Modern: From Digital to Analog and Back
Etc.

11.
Scope of the Problem
Computer crime and Cybercrime: Tools and Tricks
Etc.

12.
Etc









Includes index.